| Both father and son, in their crabbedness, may be recessionary personalities. |
| The story of a change in a character from arrogance, crabbedness, to that of humility always has appeal. |
| Out of its crabbedness and spitefulness come the finest, choicest flavors. |
| The crabbedness of old age or misfortune was evidently looked upon as witchcraft. |
| They differ from earlier work, in a slight crabbedness of hand, a somewhat less generous use of space. |
